Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Sepia Saturday 178 : 25 May 2013

This week Sepia Saturday is paying tribute to the human face. It can be young or old, male or female, happy or sad : it can be any shape or colour you choose. My selected picture comes from the collection at George Eastman House which is featured on Flickr Commons. It is listed simple as "Woman's Face" and dates from somewhere around 1915. All you need to do is to post your post on or around Saturday the 25th May 2013 and then add a link to the list below. But before you get hypnotised by those eyes staring into your soul, you might want to briefly consider what we have coming up on Sepia Saturday in the weeks ahead. Here is your usual preview.

179 : In the past on Sepia Saturday we have had cute dogs and cuddly cats, but here is a chance to bring out your birds, beasts and reptiles. Or caravans, or ladders, or ....

180 : Our picture features a hospital kitchen on a railway train, thus providing Sepians with a vast menu of theme opportunities.

But now it is time to face up to the challenge of Sepia Saturday 178. Now look into my eyes and relax. Post your posts, post your posts, post your posts .....

27 comments:

My post is published and hopefully won't disappear. I had to rewrite the whole thing because it disappeared just before I published it. The only thing left of the draft was the title! It is about a face painted on a barroom floor.

Gee whiz, this was an exercise in hard determination to get posted. It's like my third or fourth attempt and a much shorter version as much was lost, just went up in thin smoke or ghostly nothing as I tried to post this week! But if it stays here it is!

I'm on jury duty this week and don't have any time. Once I started looking for the photo I wanted to use, everything else faded away and I was driven to get this done. Turned out to be a bit of therapy. Bonus.

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.